As an unpublished author, what do you put on your web site? I feel so silly pushing myself this way, but want to do something. Everyone says it’s important to have an Internet presence, and it’s never too soon to get started, but really, I’m not so sure. If editors and agents don’t bother to look at a writer’s web site, then it seems like a lot of work.
On the other hand, I think it helps other writers see where I’m coming from when I say some of the things I say about writing process. I’m not a flash in the pan. I have completed several books. You can even see whether or not one of them is any good because I put a link to the first chapter on the web site.
Yet I have run into a lot of technical problems, and each time a link fails to work no matter what I do, I have to ask the question, is this really necessary? Do I really need to set up an individual link to each Suzie’s House episode? Do I really need the link to the first chapter of Zackly Right? Do I want to hide the fact I’ve write so many books, or that Zackly Right hasn’t won a contest since 2005. Actually, it wasn’t official until 2006, but how can I say that when the name of the contest includes the 2005 date? Should I bother to say I’ve only entered it in two contests since that win, and one of them was the Golden Heart?
I love blogging. Do I highlight it? Should I make that the second page, or leave it the last one listed? Does it matter?
So many questions.
Do you have a web site? What’s the URL? What do you recommend to someone who isn’t published yet?
Alice
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